Practice-A-Thon
2009 UPDATE
Total Number of Participating Studios: 7
Total Number of Participating Students:
42
Total Number of Hours Practiced: 591+
Total Number of Sponsors: 146
Total $ Raised: $4,802.76
2009 PRACTICE PRIZES AWARDED
STUDIO
Most Total Individual Sponsors
(at time of deadline): Sharon Lipman (2 LA Chamber Orchestra Tickets)
Most Total Hours Practiced: Nancy
Arnold ($100 Keyboard Concepts Gift Certificate)
STUDENTS
18 & Under: Most Hours
Practiced (37 hours): Quentin Mulligan (iPod Shuffle)
15 & Under: Most Hours
Practiced (40 hours): Camille De Beus (Bruce Hanifan Productions: Recording
Studio Certificate)--GRAND PRIZE
12 & Under: Most Hours Practiced (36
hours): Alyssa French (iPod Shuffle)
9 & Under: Most Hours
Practiced (20 hours): Caitlin Chen ($50 Barnes & Noble Gift Card)
Most Total Individual Sponsors (27
sponsors): Nicholas Steele (iPod Shuffle)
All Students: Honorable Mention:
Most Hours Practiced (30 hours): Yoko Rosenbaum ($25 Barnes & Noble Gift Card)
All Students: Honorable Mention: Most
Hours Practiced (29.25 hours): Jensen Pak ($25 Barnes & Noble Gift Card)
2008 UPDATE
Total Number of Participating Studios: 7
Total Number of Participating Students: 31 + 2 Teachers
Total Number of Hours Practiced: 395+
Total Number of Sponsors: 110
Total $ Raised: $3,600.50
2007 UPDATE
Total Number of Participating Studios: 8
Total Number of Participating Students: 40 + 1 Teacher
Total Number of Hours Practiced: 331+
Total Number of Sponsors: 121
Total $ Raised: $3,116.15
Westside Music Foundation
& MTAC-WLA Music Students’ Service League
2009 PRACTICE-A-THON: Information Sheet
PURPOSE
The Westside Music Foundation (WMF) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) public benefit charity committed to the promotion of music education and community service. The profits generated from the 2009 Practice-A-Thon will be used as follows:
75% will go to P.S. Arts, also a 501(c)(3) public benefit charity, toward the purchase of 1,000 recorders for 3rd- and 4th-grade Orff-Schulwerk music classes at various Title I schools in the West Los Angeles area, including Walgrove Elementary in Mar Vista, Coeur d’Alene Elementary in Venice, and Broadway Elementary in Venice; if more funds are collected than needed to purchase the recorders, the excess proceeds will be donated to the P.S. Arts instrument repair fund. www.psarts.org
15% will go to the MTAC-WLA Music Students’ Service League (MSSL) to continue local community service music projects, including recitals in senior assisted-living homes, fund-raising concerts, and a used instrument donation drive. www.mtacwla.org
10% will go to the Westside Music Foundation to continue support for its local music education programs, including the instrumental music program at St. Anne School (Title I) in Santa Monica, songwriting workshops for special education students in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, and a chamber music series for the West Los Angeles community that features world-class musicians in a public venue with free admission for children, students, and adults. www.westsidemusicfoundation.org
There are many wonderful things about this practicing project: any and every student can participate, students learn the importance of charity work, and it encourages a sense of community within our studios.
It is our duty and responsibility, as musicians and teachers, to cultivate future audiences; and what is more effective than a hands-on musical experience?! Best of all, our students will be practicing music to raise funds for children to whom music making is a luxury.
INSTRUCTIONS
All students—any age, any instrument—are eligible to participate in this two-week fundraising event! Students will record their practice hours and pledges on the Practice-A-Thon Sponsor Sheet.* Students will record the number of hours practiced daily to the nearest ¼ hour in the spaces provided. At the end of the Practice-A-Thon, students will add up their total hours practiced to the nearest ¼ hour. We suggest that the two-week practice period be from March 20, 2009 to April 3, 2009 (the two weeks before the 2009 MTAC-WLA Certificate of Merit Evaluations), but students may choose any two-week period before April 26, 2009. At the conclusion of the two-week practice period, participating teachers must:
1. collect all pledge earnings
(checks made payable to Westside Music Foundation)
2. collect Practice-A-Thon Sponsor Sheet(s)* from each participating student
3. fill out the Practice-A-Thon Master Studio Pledge Sheet*
4. send item nos. 1-3 above, in one envelope,
postmarked by April 30, 2009 or dropped off by May 3, 2009 to:
Deborah H. How, President
Westside Music Foundation
(please e-mail dhhow@musette.org for address)
*Practice-A-Thon Sponsor Sheet and Master Studio Pledge Sheet are available at the links below, as is a printable version of this Practice-A-Thon Information Sheet.
PRIZES
Prizes will be awarded to the student who practices the most total hours, the student with the most number of individual pledges (not total $ amount), the studio with the most total hours, and the studio with the most number of students participating. Additional prizes may be awarded depending on level of project participation. For a list of 2009 Practice-A-Thon Prizes, please see the 2009 Prizes link below.
QUESTIONS?
Please e-mail:
Nancy Arnold, MTAC-WLA MSSL Chair, at aikomuse@mac.com
or
Deborah H. How, WMF President, at dhhow@musette.org
2009 Practice-A-Thon Information Sheet (printable version)
